One of the victims in Fayetteville, Maxine Forga, said she hadn't noticed anything was taken from her. However, she said she was worried that some of the bills she was putting into her mail box to send out might have been what was taken.

Police say they got a report of mail strewn across the lawn of the vacant residence in east Fayetteville.

Joe Goddard, who lives in that neighborhood, said he saw police working to find all the mail that had been blown around in the lot.

"It looked like maybe 100 to 150pieces of mail,” he said. “There were two patrolmen out here just picking it up and I told them that we've seen people coming and going here. I know that no one lives in the house."

Police say there could be some link between this case and a similar theft of mail case that was cracked in Fayetteville last month.

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